Patience is virtue is
a quote that does not apply on web surfers. Split second delay and you might
lose a potential customer. Let’s get straight to the point with a scientific
data survey. Amazon increased their revenue by 22% after they optimized the
website by 0.8 seconds speedier.

This was just an
example of human behavior. Coming into 2016, not only human behavior, now even
big search engines like Google want your site to load fast. A blog which loads
faster will outrank the blog with slow loading speed.

Therefore, it is super
important that you optimize and try to decrease your page load time to the
least possible time. This article will cover 5 best ways to optimize your site
for your users and search engines.

Image
Optimization

Now doubt, images take
up huge chunk of page size and it is important to crunch your image size before
uploading and after uploading. There are a couple of methods that can be
adopted for the same.

\ Scale your
images down to the size that you want to upload on your page. Don’t upload the
larger size and then scale it down from dashboard.

-Before
uploading, compress the image using online tools like imageoptizer.net.

-Install
plugins like EWWW Image optimizer which will further crunch down the image
without quality loss.

2Compression

Now that you have
compressed image size, you also need to compress and minimize the HTML and CSS
files. You can use several tools to get it done. There are several online tools
like csscompressor and apache compressors.

3 Below
the Fold and Footer scripts

Javascript is one of
the biggest culprits for increase in age load times. Most of the times, we add
JS scripts and codes on the head of page. You don’t need Javascript to load the
entire page. Hence, always keep such scripts at the footer of blog, which will
not put stress on page loading.

The drawback of
keeping Javascript on top is your readers will have to wait until the Javascript
loads entirely and only then see the site.

Cache
Plugins

It is important to
cache elements of your site which are not going to change frequently. That way,
your readers will only have to download the new content or element. Another
huge advantage of having a cache plugin is, it can do multiple jobs for you to
improve page speed.

You can compress HTML,
CSS, JavaScript from within the plugin.

CDN
Networks

Once your images,
HTML, CSS and JavaScriptare optimized properly, our job is half done. The final
step to further improve your page load time is using an amazing CDN network.
After optimizing all the files on your site, you also need to serve and deliver
them to your reader super quick.

Unless you are hosting
your site on a very costly server, you can’t deliver them quickly. That’s where
CDNs come in. There are several CDN providers and one of them is SpaceCDN. SpaceCDN is a cheap CDN service also very popularly used among site owners to
improve page loading time.

Following these 5
ideas will help you improve site’s loading speed by more than 50% thus
improving your reader’s user experience and giving a boost to your search
engine rankings.